3. Who are two people who taunt Adam as he is driving the wagon?
(a) Leland and Lenora.
(b) Agatha and Eunice.
(c) No one taunts him since they admire him.
(d) Polly and Rowena.

4. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?
(a) He's been in the heat too long.
(b) He is brilliant.
(c) He does not know what he is talking about.
(d) He is lying.

5. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(b) They burn.
(c) They are dry and cracked.
(d) They are all watered.

6. What is Ma doing in the morning?
(a) Crying in her bedroom.
(b) Talking on the phone to FEMA.
(c) Wrapping up the family silver.
(d) Making breakfast on the big cookstove.

7. What stories had Henry fabricated?
(a) The things the machinery he sells can do.
(b) About a girlfriend back home.
(c) About saving several people from death.
(d) His travel stories.

8. What is happening to the valley?
(a) It is getting huge sinkholes.
(b) It is drying out.
(c) The trees are getting water logged and falling over.
(d) It is filling with water.

9. What happens if someone really irritates Polly?
(a) She will speak sharply.
(b) She runs in the other direction.
(c) She is so nice they walk away.
(d) She slaps them rather than talking to them.

10. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?
(a) If Polly is also in trouble from using her card.
(b) If Polly would try to help her.
(c) If Polly has been able to reverse the effect of using the card.
(d) If Polly is mad at her.

11. What does Pa do with some barrels and wood from the hen house?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Makes a raft.
(c) Fills them with dynamite to try to blast a drain hole in the earth.
(d) Fills them with their family possessions.

12. What business does Adam take up?
(a) Hog raising.
(b) Dowsing.
(c) Divination.
(d) Farming.

13. Who is Uncle Poot?
(a) Polly's uncle who is an engineer.
(b) Adam's favorite uncle.
(c) A dowser.
(d) A dam expert.

14. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?
(a) That Henry deserves his fate.
(b) Something about stuck feet.
(c) That Adam better be a lucky boy if he uses his card.
(d) That Polly is the cause of her problems.

15. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To haul water.
(b) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(c) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(d) To fish for his family's meals.